John Maynard Smith Citas

• Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

  John Maynard Smith

  Evolution, Mathematics, Natural

  John Maynard Smith (1988). “Games, sex and evolution”, Prentice Hall

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• Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.

  John Maynard Smith

  Thinking, Games, Population

  John Maynard Smith (1982). “Evolution and the Theory of Games”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Como biólogo evolutivo, he aprendido a lo largo de los años que la mayoría de la gente no quiere verse a sí misma como robots torpes programados para garantizar la supervivencia de sus genes. Tampoco creo que quieran verse como ordenadores digitales. Que alguien con credenciales científicas impecables les diga que no son nada de eso sólo puede ser agradable.

  John Maynard Smith

  Pensar, Años, Gente

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• La genética trata de cómo se almacena y transmite la información entre generaciones.

  John Maynard Smith

  Generations, Information, Genetics

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• Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

  John Maynard Smith

  Science, Action, Guides

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• The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

  John Maynard Smith

  Sex, Evolution, Problem

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• Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

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  Games, Fields, Biology

  John Maynard Smith (1982). “Evolution and the Theory of Games”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• La teoría de Darwin de la evolución por selección natural es la única explicación viable que se ha propuesto nunca para el sorprendente hecho de nuestra propia existencia, de hecho la existencia de toda la vida dondequiera que aparezca en el universo.

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  Theory Of Evolution, May, Facts

  John Maynard Smith (1993). “The Theory of Evolution”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• No podría haber sociedad humana sin lenguaje.

  John Maynard Smith

  Language, Humans, Human Society

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• Societies depend on agreed rules.

  John Maynard Smith

  Depende

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• Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

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  Mathematics, Easier, Clear

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• It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

  John Maynard Smith

  Criticism, Doe, Should

  Quarterly Review of Biology Journal, 51, p. 277-283, 1976.

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• La información impone ciertos criterios sobre cómo puede almacenarse.

  John Maynard Smith

  Information, Criteria, Certain

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• So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a second. If we want to discover generalizations about evolving systems, we will have to look at artificial ones.

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  Waiting, Want, Able

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• I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

  John Maynard Smith

  Believe, Suffering, I Can

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• Este argumento [que la vida es demasiado improbable para haber surgido por casualidad] surge repetidamente: su última manifestación es la discusión de Hoyle sobre la probabilidad de que un viento soplando a través de un depósito de chatarra ensamble un Boeing 707 [sic]. ¿Cuál es el problema? Básicamente, que ningún biólogo imagina que las estructuras complejas surjan en un solo paso.

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  Wind Blowing, Boeing, Steps

  "The Problems of Biology". Book by John Maynard Smith, p. 49, 1986.

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• It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

  John Maynard Smith

  Science, Careers, Risk

  John Maynard Smith (1988). “Games, sex and evolution”, Prentice Hall

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• Language changes very fast.

  John Maynard Smith

  Idioma

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